Wilbur Ross, Trump's Commerce Secretary, walked away with no less than $53 million after serving four years at his post, the Huffington Post said on Saturday.
Not only that: The amount could be (and likely is) well over $137 million because of the friendly-to-insiders standards of federal disclosure. Ross has been cleared of insider trading, but he has conflated public and private endeavors in a way that could impress even Trump himself.
Ross is as slick as they come. A few years ago, Forbes called him "among the biggest grifters in American history," an assessment that encompassed his actions at the private equity firm he founded. Before serving as Secretary, Ross was on the board of a foreign bank that got fined for laundering Russian money.
During his years in office, Ross produced a torrent of lies, including lying under oath about who asked to have a citizenship question put on the Census (Ross did, but blamed the DOJ).
Within the Commerce Department, there was surveillance of employees and private citizens that rivals the DOJ's scrutiny into politicians and journalists: A "security office" collected information on hundreds of Americans, searching workers' offices, emails, and social media posts looking for criticism of the Census, which is run by the Commerce Department.
And when Ross left his post, he already had a new endeavor in the works, based in the Cayman Islands, that had attracted $300 million in investors' money.
Let's keep Ross's vast corruption in mind if Trump should ever run for office again.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/wilbur-ross-53-million-commerce-head-finance-report_n_60cd5ceae4b01af0c2706d30?fbclid=IwAR2hk9ChqJ_X4Lvuc9R72eyZplveLQqWmy-_ay3YWwjoJemOM8aNcjp4J2E
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